David Lynch
Surreal dream-weaver of Blue Velvet, Lynch's enigmas offered quotable subconscious riddles.
Most quoted
"Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And beautiful."
— from Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity, 2006
"Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper."
— from Book, 2006
"Film is a language. It's like a new language, and you can say things in film that you can't say in words."
— from Interview, 1990
All quotes by David Lynch (101)
I don't know why people expect art to make sense. Movies don't make sense.
Transcendental Meditation is a means to expand consciousness and bliss.
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
I like the dark side of things. I'm attracted to it.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
The fish are biting today.
We think we understand the world, but we don't.
Silence is so accurate.
I think every artist feels the mystery of the thing they're doing.
The world is as mysterious as it is beautiful.
Creativity requires courage.
I don't like the idea of talking about my work. It's like talking about your dreams.
Meditation gives you personal power.
The unconscious mind is a deep well of ideas.
I love the idea of the surreal.
Life is full of surprises.
An artist must be free to create without fear.
The heart is the source of all things.
I enjoy the process more than the result.
Contemporaries of David Lynch
Other Film & Theaters born within 50 years of David Lynch (1946).